Word: temperance
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...genuine parody is a difficult business, as everyone knows who has ever bothered to make a few comparisons. No attempt is so beset with inveiglements to flat failure. The way is full of pitfalls, and flanked with ambushes--of ill temper, overstatement, and undue ambition to substitute mere "smartness" for humor. It is like baking a custard: too much heat in the oven fillips it to whey in a twinkling, and untutored carelessness withers all its delicious possibilities to stringy, unpalatable ruin. But blessed are they among a generation anhungered who know the true recipe and have acquired the knack...
...worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous in action, to find a place in the three-masted, damn-your-eyes tradition of sea-fiction which Captain Marryat, Cooper, Melville and, later, R. L. Stevenson adorned; but it affects, with...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...
...soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...
...Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...